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the libs have found their fantasy for gooning in front of the mirror for the next four years

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Figured I'd make a little thread with things people may not know about the cruelty of U.S. jails and prisons. 1. In California, guards force detainees into "gladiator fights" for their own amusement. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Today’s Chartbook features art from Chinese-American artist Xiaoze Xie, known for his hybrid-like, postmodern blend of traditional painting and Social Realism laced with a decisively political undertone. See more of his work in Chartbook!

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Ron Perlman speaking with an accent shifting across the entire Commonwealth and an entire mouthful of silver

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lack of friendships and variety of “gender” (not necessarily literal) across friendships

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youtu.be/AeAOVifNfjU?...

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they did this while they had legal contraception, legal abortion, legal homosexuality, women in the workforce, and official state atheism, which should raise some questions about the strategies our “pro-natalists” propose

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in the euphoric stage of high-rep Roman chair extensions

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I am a queer pro-natalist & think that anyone of any gender should be able to afford to have any number of babies with anyone—or any number of other people!—of any gender & furthermore that science has a duty to humanity to realize this possibility. now where's my op-ed?

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More Objects from Films (Twelve Monkeys [1995]) marcusjmerritt.com/objects-from...

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oh no

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a thousand times this. emphasizing Trump’s felonies denigrates so many who have been convicted of crimes and are decent people rather than the hideous amoral monster the president is. they also almost all suffered very cruel punishment for their crimes while he got off scot free because he’s rich

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girlfriend taking me out on the company card. another age gap W

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Another Japanese meme about the trade war with the United States, reacting to someone who posted: "Japan’s tariffs are already pretty much zero percent, so I wonder what more could possibly be lowered to make Trump satisfied."

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Three key pieces of context to the Iran-Contra affair are Henry Kissinger's involvement, the end of official U.S. support for South Africa's Apartheid regime, and the involvement of white supremacist Vietnam veterans like Frank Camper and Tom Posey. It's important to understand this. 🧵

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The most underappreciated aspects of Iran-Contra are the participation of military advisers from Argentina and Taiwan, South African and Rhodesian mercenaries, and the American white power movement. archive.ph/dZaYo

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youtu.be/rUdxtcJc-v0?...

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Now I know why I hoarded all those history books and kept filing cabinets of notebooks from reporting on cops across the US for a few decades.

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i can cure your hysteria but it's gonna get real messy

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“Your people, and you know who they are, came to me and wanted me to bid on contracts three times the going rate,” Dietl said.

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American Catholicism used to keenly understand it was a minority religion in a Protestant country and orient its politics somewhat accordingly, but it no longer does, even as the math hasn't changed nor the militancy of the leading Protestant political wing

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they've got the quad damage olive oil at Central Market

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the thing about hope is that it's not bound to the law of conservation of mass. it must first be created and absolutely can be destroyed.

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"When authoritarians promise a return to an imaginary past, they stoke a furious nostalgia in those who have no better way to understand what is actually undermining their sense of a durable and meaningful future"

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Royal Oak Township, Michigan, December 2024

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never understood the weird cringing humiliation thing people do, "the whole world is laughing at us!!" or whatever. I'm not responsible for a polity of hundreds of millions of people. it doesn't reflect you at all that you happen to live here right now

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im tired of line watching. enough pussyfooting around. just figure out if you're going to do imperial collapse or not is that so much to ask

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it's less that they're treating trump as if he's invincible but more so that they realize that defeating him will necessarily require the end of the imperial presidency that has defined their entire lives and that would be such a profound shift in how the world operates that they can't handle it.

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If you want my vote in the future all you have to promise me is that all of these guys will die in prison

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Lmao

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Trump is absolutely a product of NYC politics & it's no accident that Giuliani was part of his inner circle. Here's Bill Bratton as Giuliani's police commish, 94: “We are going to flush [homeless people] off the street in the same successful manner in which we flushed them out of the subway system.”

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"She added that all of the students they’ve worked with are from India, China, or Muslim-majority countries."

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In 1977, the late Ed Sadlowski, the Steel Workers' radical, offered a rejoinder to Trump's essentialist vision: "the ultimate goal of organized labor is for no man to have to go down in the bowels of the earth and dig coal," said Sadlowski, "No man will have to be subjected to the blast furnace."

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Kramer as a border-dissolving Hermes figure, traversing every boundary: Jerry's threshold, social convention, the refrigerator door. His very nature is about movement, transformation, and transgression.

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Think the president wouldn't use the IRS to go after someone? After Andy Warhol made this "Vote McGovern" image to support his presidential campaign, he was audited by the IRS every year of his life. (That's why he started keeping the Diaries, to document his activities for tax purposes.)

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alright, it's time for another thread of folks in gaza who need help! if you really want to do some good, the best way to do it is to talk to one of these people, share their story and advocate for them regularly. be in their corner. 💜

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